426 LEPIDOPTERA. 



little at the last three segments ; head shining black-brown 

 with a broad ochreous stripe on the crown of each lobe and a 

 streak about the mouth ; papillae black, finely ringed with 

 white; body dingy blackish olive-brown or chocolate-brown, 

 darkest on the anal flap, rather glistening on the second seg- 

 ment, dull on the rest of the body ; two fine black lines on 

 the collar change thence to a plain dorsal stripe, rather 

 darker than the ground colour, to the last segmeut, where it 

 is black ; continuous from either lobe of the head is a broad 

 ochreous stripe on the second segment, opening out beyond 

 into two subdorsal lines which after passing the thoracic 

 segments become dingy faint greyish-ochreous ; midway 

 along the side is a faint extra line, and on the third segment 

 begins a dirty white sub-spiracular stripe; raised dots small, 

 blackish-brown, each with a fine hair ; ocellated spots of the 

 third and twelfth segments ringed with black and having a 

 minute black centre bearing an extra long hair ; legs 

 black ; prolegs of the ground colour. (W. liiickler — 

 condensed.) 



July to September or October, but not hybernating ; on 

 aspen (^Pojmius tremula), feeding on the leaves, but occupy- 

 ing two or three together, in a habitation formed of a dead 

 leaf which has been used by some earlier-feeding larva, and 

 fixed by spinning strands of silk to adjacent green leaves. 

 (Dr. Wood.) 



Pupa of ordinary form, very compact, the limb and 

 antenna-covers closely levelled ; wing covers rather flat, 

 very dull in texture, light brown, remaining surfaces very 

 little sculptured or punctured, shining chestnut-brown ; anal 

 segment thickened, cremaster a mere flat knob with two or 

 three projecting booked bristles. In a tough silken cocoon 

 in the corner of a fallen dead leaf or on any other suitable 

 object, but away from the larval habitation. The winter is 

 passed in this state. 



The moth is very little known; but it hides during the 



